January 2, 2013 - South Liberation Movement of Iraq through its Human Rights Office issued its annual report for the year 2012. We thank Dr.Abdul Hussein Abbas , an Iraqi professor and activist who lives in exile for sending us the report in Arabic...Many prisoners and detainees were brutally tortured and violently beaten to death, for instance, Ba’ath Ali Abdullah, a young man, a prisoner in Al Taji prison; he was exposed to torture many times and without any reason except for his name which was not liked by his jailers. He was frail and very sick with high blood pressure and ulcers in the stomach, beside the torture he was succumbed to , he was prevented from taking any treatment or medicine. One day he asked the jailers for treatment, they took him out of his cell, and subjected him to brutal violence, electric shocks until he dropped dead. This crime took place recently. His story is well known to the Iraqis, an hour after he was murdered, the prison administration spread a rumor that he died from cardiac arrest. His body was released three days later after his parents were forced to sign a paper that he died of the stated reason and not by torture...

An Important Report on Iraqi Prisons and Detainees

By Ibrahim Ebeid

January 2, 2013

South Liberation Movement of Iraq through its Human Rights Office issued its annual report for the year 2012. We thank Dr.Abdul Hussein Abbas , an Iraqi professor and activist who lives in exile for sending us the report in Arabic. The Iraq Palestine Committee took the highlights of this report to let the West and Human Rights Organization know about the inhumane situation and the suffering of the Iraqi people under Occupation and sectarian regime installed by the United States and Iran.

Mr. Awad Abdan Chairman of the Movement for the Liberation of the South supervised the report, in the introduction he stated: We are attempting through this report to make some efforts to highlight several facts about Iraqi prisons which we call "Holocaust" or "corridors of executions", in this research we introduce to you the names of these prisons and population and reveal their locations and most importantly give the figures for the imprisoned. According to the report, Human Rights Organizations do not know how many secret jails are in Iraq and do not know their locations or what is happening inside these notorious jails . There are many jails in Iraq some are still under the US occupation Forces and some are under the Ministry of interior or under the various militias of the sectarian parties or under the militia under Iran inside Iraq.

Torture to death

Many prisoners and detainees were brutally tortured and violently beaten to death, for instance, Ba’ath Ali Abdullah, a young man, a prisoner in Al Taji prison; he was exposed to torture many times and without any reason except for his name which was not liked by his jailers. He was frail and very sick with high blood pressure and ulcers in the stomach, beside the torture he was succumbed to , he was prevented from taking any treatment or medicine. One day he asked the jailers for treatment, they took him out of his cell, and subjected him to brutal violence, electric shocks until he dropped dead. This crime took place recently. His story is well known to the Iraqis, an hour after he was murdered, the prison administration spread a rumor that he died from cardiac arrest. His body was released three days later after his parents were forced to sign a paper that he died of the stated reason and not by torture. The wife of victim told the Human Rights Office of the Liberation Movement that a gang of the sectarian army harassed her and her children and the women who were giving condolences to her; she stated also that she is afraid for her life and for her children, and she wants to leave the house.

Al-Taji Prison, a notorious one
A Sample of Prisoners
1963 Officer from the rank of Lieutenant to Brigade General
289 Doctors
484 Engineers
187 Pilots, some of them participated in the Iran war
181 Scientists & Chemists
578Computer Scientists
852 Teachers
205 Lawyers
197 Druggists
93 university professors
64 Directors of government departments
1163 Islamist university graduates
The total number of 6258 (93%) of these graduates are Sunni Muslims

Due to the secrecy and the blackout of the Media in Iraq no Human rights organization knows the number of prisons in Iraq, and we do not know the exact number of prisoners. There are a large number of Sectarian Militia prisons beside the occupation prisons; the above statistic is a drop in the bucket.

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